The St. John's Red Storm men's basketball team represents St. John's University located in Queens , New York . The team participates in the Big East Conference , where it is a founding member of the league. As of the end of the 2022–23 season , St. John's ranked ninth with 1,922 total wins among NCAA Division I teams. St. John's has appeared in 30 NCAA tournaments , most recently appearing in 2019 . The Red Storm's best finish in the NCAA tournament came in 1952 when they were NCAA runner-ups and made the Final Four. St. John's also made a Final Four appearance in 1985 . St. John's is coached by Rick Pitino .
42-804: Storr is a surname of Old Scandinavian origin, and may refer to AJ Storr (born 2003), American basketball player Anthony Storr (1920–2001), English psychiatrist and author Catherine Storr (1913–2001), English novelist and children's writer Farrah Storr (born 1978), British journalist Glen Milton Storr (1921–1990), Australian biologist Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr (1749–1821), German physician and naturalist Jamie Storr (born 1975), Canadian ice hockey player Paul Storr (1771–1844), London silversmith Robert Storr (art academic) , American curator, critic and painter See also [ edit ] The Storr Storrs (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
84-585: A month. After receiving over 40 Division 1 offers from schools like Kansas , LSU , Oklahoma , Virginia Tech , Ole Miss , Storr committed to St. John's . Sources: Storr was named Big East Freshman of the Week three separate times throughout his first season at St. John's. At seasons end, Storr was named to the Big East all-freshman team. Storr started 17 games and finished the season as one of two Johnnies to play in all 33 games. He average 8.8 points per game for
126-562: A player, their 2003 appearance (and title) has been vacated by the NCAA, making their official record 40–30. * Vacated by the NCAA The St. John's-Georgetown rivalry was one of the most intense matchups in the Big East during the 1980s, highlighted by the 1985 Big East Championship, 1985 NCAA semifinal game, the "Sweater Game" between Hall of Fame coaches Lou Carnesecca and John Thompson , and Hall of Fame players Chris Mullin and Patrick Ewing . St. John's fans also count other East Coast rivals
168-525: A regional third-place finish that year. At the end of the season, McGuire left St. John's to become the basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . On paper, this was a significant step down from St. John's, as UNC was not reckoned as a national power at the time. However, school officials wanted a big-name coach to counter the rise of rival North Carolina State under Everett Case. McGuire's assistant coach, Al "Dusty" DeStefano, took over
210-528: A score 17–9. Freeman finished his coaching career with a record of 177–31, an .850 winning percentage. Joe Lapchick , a former player of the Original Celtics , took over as head coach at St. John's in 1936 and continued the success the school had become used to under Buck Freeman. Lapchick coached from 1936 to 1947 and again from 1956 to 1965. His Redmen teams won four NIT championships ( 1943 , 1944 , 1959 , 1965 ). Lapchick preferred to take his teams to
252-712: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles AJ Storr AJ Storr (born August 26, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the Kansas Jayhawks of the Big 12 Conference . Storr was raised in Rockford, Illinois and played his first three years of high school basketball at Kankakee High School in Kankakee, Illinois . He then moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with his father, Ambrozino, and attended Bishop Gorman High School to complete his junior year. Storr spent
294-625: Is the most popular collegiate basketball program in New York City and has a world-wide following. There are numerous fan forums that support the basketball program, in addition to all of the university's teams. The most popular is redmen.com which often leads the mainstream sports media in breaking news regarding its sports teams. The St. John's men's basketball team played its first game on December 6, 1907, losing to New York University and registering its first win in program history against Adelphi University on January 3, 1908. Just three years later,
336-556: The 1910–11 team were undefeated in a 14–0 season coached by former track and field Olympian Claude Allen , for which the team was later honored by the Helms Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll as national champions. Twenty years later, former St. John's player Buck Freeman was hired as coach. In his first four years, from 1927 to 1931, the team had a 85–8 record. The 1929–30 and 1930–31 teams were known as
378-603: The 1952 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament . Under McGuire, the Redmen reached an overall number one ranking in The Associated Press poll twice, won three Metropolitan New York Conference regular season titles, competed in four NITs and made their first appearance in the NCAA tournament where they made it to the Elite Eight before falling to eventual national champion Kentucky . They defeated North Carolina State for
420-714: The Metropolitan New York Conference . The Red Storm own an all-time record of 250–86 against these other New York City schools. List of players and coaches honored: The following St. John's players, coaches, and contributors have been enshrined in the Naismith Hall of Fame . The following St. John's players and coaches have represented their country in basketball in the Summer Olympic Games: All-Metropolitan First Team * record stands after
462-617: The NCAA tournament 30 times. Their combined record is 27–32. Due to impermissible benefits to a player, their 2002 appearance has been vacated by the NCAA making their official record 27–31. * Vacated by the NCAA The Red Storm have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) 30 times. Their combined record is 45–30. They are six-time NIT Champions (1943, 1944, 1959, 1965, 1989, 2003). Due to impermissible benefits to
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#1733085668247504-608: The NCAA tournament twenty-eight (28) times, boasts two John R. Wooden Award winners, 11 consensus All-Americans , 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame , and has sent 59 players to the NBA . The school is also the 8th winningest team in all of college basketball. St. John's is the seventh-most-winningest program in college basketball history (1,686 wins), St. John's boasts the seventh-most NCAA tournament appearances (27), two Wooden Award winners as national player of
546-796: The Villanova Wildcats , Providence Friars , Seton Hall Pirates , and former Big East founders Syracuse Orange and the Boston College Eagles along with the Connecticut Huskies and Pittsburgh Panthers among their most frequently played opponents. St. John's fifth most frequent played opponent is fellow Vincentian and Western New York college, the Niagara Purple Eagles . The universities have played each other every college basketball season since 1909. St. John's also frequently plays other New York City opponents representing
588-407: The surname Storr . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Storr&oldid=1217335562 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
630-462: The "Wonder Five", made up of Matty Begovich, Mac Kinsbrunner, Max Posnack, Allie Schuckman, and Jack "Rip" Gerson, who together helped revolutionize the game of basketball and made St. John's the marquee team in New York City. On January 19, 1931, the Wonder Five team was a part of the first college basketball triple-header at Madison Square Garden in a charity game which saw St. John's beat CCNY by
672-539: The 1943–44 and 1944–45 seasons due to being drafted for the war effort, along with the team's star point guard Dick McGuire for half the 1943–44 season and the entire following two years. Despite the losses of their star players, the St. John's team managed to finish the season with an 18–5 record and a second NIT crown by defeating Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Wildcats and Ray Meyer's DePaul Blue Demons . The Redmen were led by playmaking junior guards Hy Gotkin and Bill Kotsores ,
714-467: The 2019–20 season DeGray Gymnasium was the original home of the St. John's Redmen when the university was located at 75 Lewis Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, NY . Their record at DeGray Gym was 156 wins to 11 losses for a winning percentage of .934. St. John's played their last home game there on December 8, 1956, with a victory of Roanoke College 103–65. When the university
756-706: The 2020–21 season at AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Arizona , where he helped lead the Dragons to a 28–2 season and a semifinals appearance in the 2021 GEICO Nationals. He was teammates with future NBA player TyTy Washington Jr. . After he graduated, Storr attended IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida for his postgraduate season. As a 6-foot-6-inch (1.98 m) shooting guard , he averaged 22.8 points per game while shooting 60 percent during his postgraduate season at IMG. Storr originally committed to Illinois but decommitted after about
798-602: The Badgers, Storr competed with the Bahamas national basketball team during their exhibition matches against the Kansas Jayhawks . During those exhibition games, Storr played alongside NBA players Buddy Hield and Eric Gordon . Following the completion of the regular season, Storr was named to the All-Big Ten second team by the coaches and media. On April 18, 2024, Storr transferred to Kansas . Storr's mother, Annette Brandy,
840-460: The NIT; three days later St. John's participated in the first Red Cross charity benefit game against NCAA champion Wyoming to determine a national champion. Wyoming won, 52–47. St. John's became the first team to repeat as champions in the seven-year history of the NIT even though World War II and the players' commitment to serve in the armed forces made it a very difficult season. Harry Boykoff missed
882-654: The Redmen consisted of four seniors and sophomore sensation Tony Jackson who was named both the Holiday Festival and NIT Most Valuable Player during the 1958–59 season, setting a school record of 27 rebounds in one game. At the end of the season senior captain Alan Seiden was rewarded with second team All-American honors and the Haggerty Award , given to the best collegiate player in the New York metropolitan area. Throughout
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#1733085668247924-513: The St. John's basketball team is Taffner Field House, located on the Queens campus adjacent to Carnesecca Arena . In the fall of 2005, the $ 16 million facility was completed with a majority of the donations coming from longtime St. John's fan, graduate, and benefactor Donald L. Taffner and his wife Eleanor Taffner, for whom the building is named. The field house features four full-size basketball courts, two for student life and two for varsity basketball,
966-435: The St. John's campus in Queens. St. John's University holds the second best winning percentage for a New York City school in the NCAA basketball tournament (second to City College of New York , which won the 1950 NCAA Division I Championship ). St. John's has the most NIT appearances with 27, the most championship wins with 6, although they were stripped of one due to an NCAA infraction. The 1910–11 St. John's team finished
1008-593: The Sweet Sixteen in 1967, 1969, and 1983. Carnesecca temporarily left St. John's to coach in the ABA from 1970 to 1973, when it was coached by former player Frank Mulzoff , who gathered a record of 56–27 and three post-season appearances. Upon Carnesecca's return, he continued to guide the program to 29 consecutive postseason tournament appearances and to playing in a major conference, the Big East . The Red Storm have appeared in
1050-518: The difficult task to follow in the footsteps of Lapchick. In the 1985 NCAA tournament , he coached the Redmen to their second Final Four appearance. He was named the National Coach of the Year in 1983 and 1985 and Big East Coach of the Year on three occasions. His record at St. John's was 526–200. Carnesecca led the team to its record fifth NIT title in 1989, to the NCAA's Elite Eight in 1979 and 1991, and to
1092-442: The following year where they produced another 21–3 record, but their chance at a rematch with George Mikan's DePaul squad and a third consecutive NIT title was shattered with an upset loss to Bowling Green in the semifinals. They beat Rhode Island State for a third-place finish. Lapchick's Redmen made the NIT both of the next two years and added two more Metropolitan New York Conference regular season titles before heleft to take
1134-673: The four other NYC boroughs; the Fordham Rams and Manhattan Jaspers of The Bronx , the St. Francis Terriers and LIU Blackbirds of Brooklyn , the NYU Violets and CCNY Beavers of Manhattan , and the Wagner Seahawks of Staten Island . These teams were all instrumental in creating the postseason National Invitational Tournament hosted annually at Madison Square Garden . From 1933 to 1963 most of these schools came together to play each other in
1176-726: The head coaching duties of St. John's from 1952 to 1956. DeStefano's teams only made one postseason appearance and it was a 58–46 loss to the Seton Hall Pirates in the NIT Finals who were led by All-American center Walter Dukes . The following year, the Redmen had their first losing season in over 30 years. One month after leaving his position with the New York Knicks , Lapchick resumed his head coaching duties where he started and put St. John's back on its winning path. Picking up where he left off, he added two more NIT championships, made
1218-487: The head coaching job of the New York Knickerbockers in just the second year of their existence in the new Basketball Association of America , becoming the highest paid coach of the league at the time. Lapchick was succeeded by Frank McGuire , a former player under Buck Freeman, who made the postseason four out of five years as the coach and had an overall record of 102–36, culminating in a second-place finish in
1260-519: The latter of whom was selected as the 1944 NIT Most Valuable Player. For the second year in a row the Redmen participated in the Red Cross benefit game where they faced the NCAA champion Utah , and lost 36–44. The 1951 1952 team lost to Kentucky 81–40 in December 1951. In the NCAA tournament, St John's beat Kentucky, 64–57. They later finished second in the tournament to Kansas. St. John's success continued
1302-694: The mandatory retirement age of the university. His team began the year off by upsetting Cazzie Russell 's Michigan Wolverines , the No. 1 team in the nation according to both the Associated Press and United Press International polls, by a score of 75–74 to capture the school's second ECAC Holiday Festival title. St. John's finished the season 21–8 and went on a remarkable run in the 1965 NIT by defeating Boston College, New Mexico, Army, and top-seeded Villanova to win Lapchick his fourth NIT championship. The Redmen were led by
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1344-424: The more prestigious NIT instead of the NCAA tournament , making the NIT semifinals 8 out of a total 12 times, and only one NCAA tournament appearance in his 20 years of coaching the Redmen. Under Lapchick's coaching his teams also won six Metropolitan New York Conference regular season titles. On its way to its first of back-to-back NIT titles, St. John's had a record of 21–3 with only two losses occurring during
1386-494: The next three years, St. John's went 58–18, led by Jackson who received All-American honors all three years at school, 6'11" center and future NBA champion LeRoy Ellis , and future ABA/NBA coach Kevin Loughery . In the 1961–62 season, St. John's made their fifth NIT finals appearance before falling to Dayton 73–67. Lapchick went into the 1964–65 season knowing it would be his last year coaching at St. John's because he reached age 65,
1428-472: The postseason 6 out of 9 times, and finished with an overall college coaching record of 334–130. In 20 years of coaching in the college ranks, Lapchick only had one losing season. St. John's finished the 1958–59 season with an overall 20–6 record and captured its first ECAC Holiday Festival title with a 90–79 victory over St. Joseph's in the final and the school's third NIT championship by defeating top-seeded Bradley 76–70 in double overtime. The starting five for
1470-579: The rebounding of sophomore forward Lloyd "Sonny" Dove and the scoring of senior Ken McIntyre who totaled 101 points in his last four games, over 1,000 points for his college career, and being named the Most Valuable Player of both the Holiday Festival and the National Invitational Tournament. Lou Carnesecca was hired as the head basketball coach at St. John's in 1965, after serving as an assistant at St. John's since 1958, and given
1512-447: The regular season. One was a 40–46 home loss to rival Niagara and another was a 38–42 loss at Madison Square Garden to Manhattan . The 1942–43 St. John's team were led by senior caption Andrew "Fuzzy" Levane and sophomore All-American center Harry Boykoff . The Redmen's trademark defense and inside scoring presence of Boykoff led them past Rice , Fordham , and Toledo to claim the first of six NIT titles. The season did not end after
1554-410: The season and scored a season-high 23 points in a loss to Creighton on January 25, 2023. On March 28, 2023, Storr entered the transfer portal 8 days after St. John's announced the hiring of Rick Pitino . After receiving interest from programs like UConn , Gonzaga , Michigan , Memphis , Creighton and Virginia , Storr transferred to Wisconsin. Prior to the start of his sophomore season with
1596-552: The season with a 14–0 record and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll . In 2008, St. John's celebrated its 100th year of college basketball. On February 21, 2011, the men's basketball team was voted into the top 25 in the AP and ESPN Coaches poll. This was the first time the team had been ranked since the end of the season in 2000. The basketball team
1638-518: The year, 11 consensus All-Americans, 6 members of the College Basketball Hall of Fame , and has sent 59 players to the NBA . However, St. John's currently holds the NCAA Division I record for most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship appearances without a championship. The Red Storm play most of their home games at Madison Square Garden , "The World's Most Famous Arena", while their early non-conference games are held at Carnesecca Arena on
1680-461: Was a part of the first college basketball triple-header at the third Madison Square Garden on 8th Avenue and 50th Street in a charity game which saw St. John's beat CCNY by a score 17–9. St. John's has played at least one game in the arena every year since then, for a record 89 consecutive seasons, for both regular season home games, preseason and postseason tournaments including the Big East, NIT, and Holiday Festival. The current training facility of
1722-538: Was a standout basketball player at Roberto Clemente Community Academy in Chicago and went on to play collegiately at Illinois Central College and University of Missouri–St. Louis before a semi-pro stint. His sister, Ambranette, was a top scorer in the state of Illinois while at Kankakee High School . She also played collegiately at Moberly Area Community College , Grand Canyon and Detroit Mercy . St. John%27s Red Storm men%27s basketball The team has reached
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1764-541: Was transitioning from Brooklyn to Queens, the basketball team split their home games between the old Madison Square Garden and Martin Van Buren High School for five seasons. In 1961, home games were moved to the 5,602-seat Alumni Hall on the newly constructed Queens campus opening with a 79–65 win over George Washington University . On November 23, 2004, the building and court were renamed for Hall of Fame coach Lou Carnesecca. On January 19, 1931, St. John's
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